Lamestream Media Double Standards and Fake News

[Anonymous]

Former President Donald Trump's exit from the White House has correlated with a decline in ratings and viewership for a number of cable news shows, according to an analysis.



CNN, MSNBC, and Fox News have all seen overall declines in viewers, Variety said in its analysis, which added that since Trump's second impeachment trial, "audiences for CNN have plummeted" and "MSNBC is seeing about half CNN's drop," while Fox News is down by single digits.

Ahhh, that's too bad.

 

[Anonymous]

Democratic political strategist Doug Schoen says the situation at the border is a "full on crisis" and the media is using a double standard to cover the increasingly tense situation.



"We have a crisis, a full on crisis," Schoen said. "Unless the Biden administration takes the issue on forcefully, we will have a full on crisis of politics and more important substance as we go forward."



Schoen said one of the causes for the recent surge at the border is that the Democratic Party won't promote a bipartisan immigration policy.

[Anonymous]

Why the media still blames Trump for Asian hate crimes



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[Anonymous]

Audio That Debunked Fraudulent Trump Quotes Found On GA State Government Device: Report

https://www.dailywire.com/news/audio-that-debunked-fraudulent-trump-quotes-found-on-ga-state-government-device-report?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=benshapiro&fbclid=IwAR2zuc4QyuoQ9Zfwleii2O-1RGhnxH37XbPnTwU3q55thLdbvVx5QqTsuhE">https://www.dailywire.com/news/audio-th ... Vx5QqTsuhE">https://www.dailywire.com/news/audio-that-debunked-fraudulent-trump-quotes-found-on-ga-state-government-device-report?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=benshapiro&fbclid=IwAR2zuc4QyuoQ9Zfwleii2O-1RGhnxH37XbPnTwU3q55thLdbvVx5QqTsuhE



An audio recording that forced multiple major news outlets to issue corrections to stories that attributed fraudulent quotes to former President Donald Trump was reportedly found on the device of the chief investigator of the Georgia secretary of state's office.



Trump made a call to the chief investigator, Frances Watson, on Dec. 23 to discuss alleged fraud in the 2020 election, asking her to look into votes cast in Fulton County, Georgia, especially. Reports of the call published the next month by The Washington Post, CNN, and others quoted Trump as telling Watson to "find the fraud" and claiming she would be a "national hero" if she did.



An audio recording of the call published last week showed that Trump made neither statement, debunking news outlets' claims that were sourced back to a single anonymous source.



The recording of the call was obtained through an open records request to the Georgia secretary of state's office. Officials reportedly located the file in a trash folder on Watson's device, according to CNN. As the outlet reported on Monday



Trump responded to the media scandal in a statement on Monday. The former president thanked the Post, the first outlet to publish the fraudulent quotes, for correcting the story while accusing the larger media of having bias that against Republicans.



"You will notice that establishment media errors, omissions, mistakes, and outright lies always slant one way — against me and against Republicans. Meanwhile, stories that hurt Democrats or undermine their narratives are buried, ignored, or delayed until they can do the least harm — for example, after an election is over," Trump said.



"Look no further than the negative coverage of the vaccine that preceded the election and the overdue celebration of the vaccine once the election had concluded. A strong democracy requires a fair and honest press," he added. "This latest media travesty underscores that legacy media outlets should be regarded as political entities — not journalistic enterprises. In any event, I thank the Washington Post for the correction."

[Thiel]

Audio That Debunked Fraudulent Trump Quotes Found On GA State Government Device: Report

https://www.dailywire.com/news/audio-that-debunked-fraudulent-trump-quotes-found-on-ga-state-government-device-report?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=benshapiro&fbclid=IwAR2zuc4QyuoQ9Zfwleii2O-1RGhnxH37XbPnTwU3q55thLdbvVx5QqTsuhE">https://www.dailywire.com/news/audio-th ... Vx5QqTsuhE">https://www.dailywire.com/news/audio-that-debunked-fraudulent-trump-quotes-found-on-ga-state-government-device-report?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=benshapiro&fbclid=IwAR2zuc4QyuoQ9Zfwleii2O-1RGhnxH37XbPnTwU3q55thLdbvVx5QqTsuhE



An audio recording that forced multiple major news outlets to issue corrections to stories that attributed fraudulent quotes to former President Donald Trump was reportedly found on the device of the chief investigator of the Georgia secretary of state's office.



Trump made a call to the chief investigator, Frances Watson, on Dec. 23 to discuss alleged fraud in the 2020 election, asking her to look into votes cast in Fulton County, Georgia, especially. Reports of the call published the next month by The Washington Post, CNN, and others quoted Trump as telling Watson to "find the fraud" and claiming she would be a "national hero" if she did.



An audio recording of the call published last week showed that Trump made neither statement, debunking news outlets' claims that were sourced back to a single anonymous source.



The recording of the call was obtained through an open records request to the Georgia secretary of state's office. Officials reportedly located the file in a trash folder on Watson's device, according to CNN. As the outlet reported on Monday



Trump responded to the media scandal in a statement on Monday. The former president thanked the Post, the first outlet to publish the fraudulent quotes, for correcting the story while accusing the larger media of having bias that against Republicans.



"You will notice that establishment media errors, omissions, mistakes, and outright lies always slant one way — against me and against Republicans. Meanwhile, stories that hurt Democrats or undermine their narratives are buried, ignored, or delayed until they can do the least harm — for example, after an election is over," Trump said.



"Look no further than the negative coverage of the vaccine that preceded the election and the overdue celebration of the vaccine once the election had concluded. A strong democracy requires a fair and honest press," he added. "This latest media travesty underscores that legacy media outlets should be regarded as political entities — not journalistic enterprises. In any event, I thank the Washington Post for the correction."

The Democrats wanted him charged based on that phone call that never happened.

[cc]

Well, they reaped what they sowed   ac_smile



https://www.foxnews.com/media/cnn-hemorrhaging-viewers-trump-down-50-percent">CNN Hemorrhaging Viewers Since Trump Left Office



CNN has been hemorrhaging viewers since former President Trump left office, losing roughly half of its audience in key measurables since January following a brief post-Election Day spike.



CNN averaged 2.5 million primetime viewers from Nov. 4, the day following the presidential election, through Inauguration Day on Jan. 20. But viewers fled the liberal network once President Biden took office, and CNN has averaged only 1.6 million primetime viewers from Jan. 21 through March 15.



Liberal network has lost 47% of primetime audience among the 25-to-54 demographic most important to advertisers

[Anonymous]

Well, they reaped what they sowed   ac_smile



https://hidedoor.com/servlet/redirect.srv/sruj/sbgpzkcu/snop/p2/media/cnn-hemorrhaging-viewers-trump-down-50-percent">CNN Hemorrhaging Viewers Since Trump Left Office



CNN has been hemorrhaging viewers since former President Trump left office, losing roughly half of its audience in key measurables since January following a brief post-Election Day spike.



CNN averaged 2.5 million primetime viewers from Nov. 4, the day following the presidential election, through Inauguration Day on Jan. 20. But viewers fled the liberal network once President Biden took office, and CNN has averaged only 1.6 million primetime viewers from Jan. 21 through March 15.



Liberal network has lost 47% of primetime audience among the 25-to-54 demographic most important to advertisers

I read that too cc....I can't remember if it was here or not.

[Anonymous]

Media Tout Push Poll That Floridians Are Worried About Climate Change–They're Not

https://climatechangedispatch.com/media-tout-push-poll-that-floridians-are-worried-about-climate-change-theyre-not/?fbclid=IwAR2tSybOsElnHG_oHpsXmV6h3jJs1FmMXkdat6WglFhftpJL6hhTvmqoD8Y">https://climatechangedispatch.com/media ... hhTvmqoD8Y">https://climatechangedispatch.com/media-tout-push-poll-that-floridians-are-worried-about-climate-change-theyre-not/?fbclid=IwAR2tSybOsElnHG_oHpsXmV6h3jJs1FmMXkdat6WglFhftpJL6hhTvmqoD8Y



The corporate media this week are trumpeting a biased push poll from Saint Leo University claiming a majority of Floridians are worried about climate change.



In reality, a vast majority of Floridians are somewhere between "not at all concerned" about climate change and merely "somewhat concerned" about climate change. Even Saint Leo's poll finds only 39 percent of Floridians are "very concerned."





For context, national polls continue to show an even split between people who are "not very concerned" or "not at all concerned" about climate change versus people who are "very concerned" about climate change.



For example, a Nov. 1 New York Times poll found 39 percent of voters nationally are either "not very" or "not at all" concerned about climate change, versus just 37 percent who are "very" concerned.



The rest were just "somewhat concerned." Similarly, a December 2020 Rasmussen poll – commissioned by The Heartland Institute – found similar results.



The Saint Leo poll did not list how it weighted Republican and Democrat poll respondents in Florida.



Even if we assume for the sake of argument that the push-poll was properly weighted, Saint Leo reports merely 39 percent of Floridians are "very concerned."



Despite this, the Saint Leo press release announcing its poll results is titled, "Florida Residents Continue to Worry About Climate Change and Various Effects, Saint Leo University Survey Shows." Well, I guess so, if you mean "Some" Florida residents or "A minority of" Florida residents continue to worry.



Spurred on by Saint Leo's sensationalism, several Florida media outlets even more inaccurately reported the poll results:



The Islander News (Key Biscayne) published an article titled, "Floridians are more worried about climate change than most Americans, a new study finds." – Well, yeah, by a measly 2 percentage points, which is well within the margins of error.



The Florida Phoenix similarly published an article titled, "New Survey: Floridians are more worried about climate change than most Americans."



In reality, most Floridians, like most Americans, are not very concerned about climate change. Neither are Floridians more concerned about climate change than most Americans.



Push polls and biased media stories claiming anything different are poorly disguised attempts to bully or induce Florida policymakers to cater to the minority Climate Left out of raw political fear. Florida policymakers should trust climate realism and their own political instincts, instead.

[Anonymous]

The Sovietization of the American Press

The transformation from phony "objectivity" to open one-party orthodoxy hasn't been an improvement

https://nationalpost.com/opinion/matt-taibbi-the-sovietization-of-the-american-press?fbclid=IwAR26nbtIaqCGH4b-pBk7at4_AD7uandnbXENSKuoRLnp3DeLBahlA0KXH4M">https://nationalpost.com/opinion/matt-t ... ahlA0KXH4M">https://nationalpost.com/opinion/matt-taibbi-the-sovietization-of-the-american-press?fbclid=IwAR26nbtIaqCGH4b-pBk7at4_AD7uandnbXENSKuoRLnp3DeLBahlA0KXH4M



Reality in Soviet news was 100 per cent binary, with all people either heroes or villains, and the villains all in league with one another (an SR was no better than a fascist or a "Right-Trotskyite Bandit," a kind of proto-horseshoe theory). Other ideas were not represented, except to be attacked and deconstructed. Also, since anything good was all good, politicians were not described as people at all but paragons of limitless virtue — 95 per cent of most issues of Pravda or Izvestia were just names of party leaders surrounded by lists of applause-words, like "glittering," "full-hearted," "wise," "mighty," "courageous," "in complete moral-political union with the people," etc.



Some of the headlines in the U.S. press lately sound suspiciously like this kind of work:



— Biden stimulus showers money on Americans, sharply cutting poverty



— Champion of the middle class comes to the aid of the poor



— Biden's historic victory for America



The most Soviet of the recent efforts didn't have a classically Soviet headline. "Comedians are struggling to parody Biden. Let's hope this doesn't last," read the Washington Post opinion piece by Richard Zoglin, arguing that Biden is the first president in generations who might be "impervious to impressionists." Zoglin contended Biden is "impregnable" to parody, his voice being too "devoid of obvious quirks," his manner too "muted and self-effacing" to offer comedians much to work with. He was talking about this person:



The first 50 days of Biden's administration have been a surprise on multiple fronts. The breadth of his stimulus suggests a real change from the Obama years, while hints that this administration wants to pick a unionization fight with Amazon go against every tendency of Clintonian politics. But it's hard to know what much of it means, because coverage of Biden increasingly resembles official press releases, often featuring embarrassing, Soviet-style contortions.



When Biden decided not to punish Saudi Prince Mohammed bin Salman for the murder of Washington Post writer Jamal Khashoggi on the grounds that the "cost" of "breaching the relationship with one of America's key Arab allies" was too high, the New York Times headline read: "Biden Won't Penalize Saudi Crown Prince Over Khashoggi's Killing, Fearing Relations Breach." When Donald Trump made the same calculation, saying he couldn't cut ties because "the world is a very dangerous place" and "our relationship is with the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia," the paper joined most of the rest of the presscorps in howling in outrage.

[Anonymous]

Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey has called the company's decision to block a story about Hunter Biden in the run-up to the 2020 election a "total mistake," but failed to say Thursday who was responsible for suppressing the article.

[Anonymous]

Associated Press tells reporters not to say 'crisis' — but had no problem using word when Trump was president. Trump did not get the same treatment.

[Anonymous]

CBS News drops pretense of objectivity with headline: '3 ways companies can help fight Georgia's restrictive new voting law'



The mask slips

https://www.theblaze.com/news/cbs-news-drops-pretense-of-objectivity-with-headline-3-ways-companies-can-help-fight-georgias-restrictive-new-voting-law?utm_source=theblaze-dailyPM&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Daily-Newsletter__PM%202021-04-03&utm_term=ACTIVE%20LIST%20-%20TheBlaze%20Daily%20PM">https://www.theblaze.com/news/cbs-news- ... Daily%20PM">https://www.theblaze.com/news/cbs-news-drops-pretense-of-objectivity-with-headline-3-ways-companies-can-help-fight-georgias-restrictive-new-voting-law?utm_source=theblaze-dailyPM&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Daily-Newsletter__PM%202021-04-03&utm_term=ACTIVE%20LIST%20-%20TheBlaze%20Daily%20PM

[Anonymous]

'Absolute malarkey': '60 Minutes' airs deceptively edited segment accusing Gov. Ron DeSantis of corruption

https://www.theblaze.com/news/absolute-malarkey-60-minutes-airs-deceptively-edited-segment-accusing-gov-ron-desantis-of-corruption?utm_source=theblaze-breaking&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=20210405Trending-DesantisPublix&utm_term=ACTIVE%20LIST%20-%20TheBlaze%20Breaking%20News">https://www.theblaze.com/news/absolute- ... ing%20News">https://www.theblaze.com/news/absolute-malarkey-60-minutes-airs-deceptively-edited-segment-accusing-gov-ron-desantis-of-corruption?utm_source=theblaze-breaking&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=20210405Trending-DesantisPublix&utm_term=ACTIVE%20LIST%20-%20TheBlaze%20Breaking%20News



CBS News' "60 minutes" was blasted on Sunday by a top Democratic official in Florida and the state's largest grocery store chain after it aired a deceptively edited segment insinuating that Governor Ron DeSantis (R) engaged in a "pay to play" scheme with COVID-19 vaccine distribution.



On Sunday evening, CBS News' Sharyn Alfonsi reported that DeSantis received a $100,000 donation to his PAC from Publix grocery stores, which later partnered with the state to distribute COVID-19 vaccines. "60 Minutes" aired a clip of Alfonsi confronting DeSantis at a press conference south of Orlando, accusing the governor of "pay to play" by giving Publix exclusive rights to distribute the vaccine after he received that donation.



The governor said Alfonsi was "wrong" and spreading a "fake narrative" and proceeded to correct the record, but his long answer was cut out of the segment by CBS News' editors.



The Daily Wire reported the transcript of the segment, highlighting in bold the parts of DeSantis' answer that were edited out of the clip.



Sharyn Alfonsi: Publix, as you know, donated $100,000 to your campaign, and then you rewarded them with the exclusive rights to distribute the vaccination in Palm Beach—



Ron DeSantis: So, first of all, that — what you're saying is wrong. That's—



Sharyn Alfonsi: How is that not pay-to-play?



Ron DeSantis: —that, that's a fake narrative. So, first of all, when we did, the first pharmacies that had it were CVS and Walgreens. And they had a long-term care mission. So they were going to the long-term care facilities. They got the vaccine in the middle of December, they started going to the long-term care facilities the third week of December to do LTCs. So that was their mission. That was very important. And we trusted them to do that. As we got into January, we wanted to expand the distribution points. So yes, you had the counties, you had some drive-through sites, you had hospitals that were doing a lot, but we wanted to get it into communities more. So we reached out to other retail pharmacies — Publix, Walmart — obviously CVS and Walgreens had to finish that mission. And we said, we're going to use you as soon as you're done with that. For Publix, they were the first one to raise their hand, say they were ready to go. And you know what, we did it on a trial basis. I had three counties. I actually showed up that weekend and talked to seniors across four different Publix. How was the experience? Is this good? Should you think this is a way to go? And it was 100% positive. So we expanded it, and then folks liked it. And I can tell you, if you look at a place like Palm Beach County, they were kind of struggling at first in terms of the senior numbers. I went, I met with the county mayor. I met with the administrator. I met with all the folks in Palm Beach County, and I said, "Here's some of the options: we can do more drive-through sites, we can give more to hospitals, we can do the Publix, we can do this." They calculated that 90% of their seniors live within a mile and a half of a Publix. And they said, "We think that would be the easiest thing for our residents." So, we did that, and what ended up happening was, you had 65 Publix in Palm Beach. Palm Beach is one of the biggest counties, one of the most elderly counties, we've done almost 75% of the seniors in Palm Beach, and the reason is because you have the strong retail footprint. So our way has been multifaceted. It has worked. And we're also now very much expanding CVS and Walgreens, now that they've completed the long-term care mission.



Sharyn Alfonsi: The criticism is that it's pay-to-play, governor.



Ron DeSantis: And it's wrong. It's wrong. It's a fake narrative. I just disabused you of the narrative. And you don't care about the facts. Because, obviously, I laid it out for you in a way that is irrefutable.



Sharyn Alfonsi: Well, I— I was just—



Ron DeSantis: And, so, it's clearly not.



Sharyn Alfonsi: Isn't there the nearest Publix —



Ron DeSantis: No, no, no. You're wrong.



Sharyn Alfonsi: —30 miles away.



Ron DeSantis: You're wrong. You're wrong. Yes, sir?



Sharyn Alfonsi: That's actually a fact.

"The irresponsible suggestion that there was a connection between campaign contributions made to Governor DeSantis and our willingness to join other pharmacies in support of the state's vaccine distribution efforts is absolutely false and offensive," Publix said in a scathing statement provided to "60 Minutes."



"We are proud of our pharmacy associates for administering more than 1.5 million doses of vaccine to date and for joining other retailers in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, Tennessee and Virginia to do our part to help our communities emerge from the pandemic," the grocery store said.



Florida's director of emergency management, Jared Moskowitz, the Democratic state official responsible for directing the response to the pandemic under Gov. DeSantis, came to the governor's defense and called Alfonsi's narrative "absolute malarkey."

[Anonymous]

5 Big Tech Companies to Be Investigated for Censorship of Conservative Content: Indiana AG



Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita said on April 7 that he will be scrutinizing five big tech companies that might have potentially caused harm to Indiana consumers through "abusive, deceptive and/or unfair" practices.



The five companies to be scrutinized by Rokita are Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Google, and Twitter.

https://www.theepochtimes.com/mkt_morningbrief/five-big-tech-companies-to-be-investigated-for-censorship-of-conservative-content-indiana-ag_3766366.html?utm_source=morningbriefnoe&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=mb-2021-04-08&mktids=623ec727042b6873807a1e86e281bdf0&est=vB5P1Oq%2F%2B%2BBfmoO7RyA6x4biieqCWU%2FnJoNWdzqJdedQzgD5Rh3qDx0XVtz91gj%2F6g%3D%3D">https://www.theepochtimes.com/mkt_morni ... 2F6g%3D%3D">https://www.theepochtimes.com/mkt_morningbrief/five-big-tech-companies-to-be-investigated-for-censorship-of-conservative-content-indiana-ag_3766366.html?utm_source=morningbriefnoe&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=mb-2021-04-08&mktids=623ec727042b6873807a1e86e281bdf0&est=vB5P1Oq%2F%2B%2BBfmoO7RyA6x4biieqCWU%2FnJoNWdzqJdedQzgD5Rh3qDx0XVtz91gj%2F6g%3D%3D

[Anonymous]

Facebook and the Fact Checkers





Recently, Facebook took down Lara Trump's interview with former President Donald Trump, warning that Trump's content was banned on the platform. In doing this, Facebook made a new escalation in its censorship project.



First, Facebook took the position Trump could not post because his claims of election fraud, leading up to the events of Jan. 6, posed a clear and present danger to the peaceful transfer of power. Second, Facebook said Trump could not post at all, in a sense implying that even his future posts might pose a similar danger.



Now Facebook has taken it a step further by taking the position that even interviews with Trump conducted by others cannot be posted. Trump, let's remember, is still the leading figure in the Republican Party, the most prominent voice of opposition, and a potential candidate in the 2024 presidential race. And Facebook and other media platforms even seem bent on erasing Trump from history, as if America had a 44th president (Obama) and now a 46th president (Biden) but number 45 has been removed from public view.



I've had my own issues with Facebook, which I'd like to explore here, because they show how Facebook operates in flagging or restricting content. I've never been banned from Facebook, but I have been flagged, demonetized for periods of time, and had to endure—as I seem to be enduring now—some form of reduced distribution. This means Facebook limits who can see my posts.



And why? Last October I got demonetized because I posted a clip of Biden saying that Antifa was merely an idea. This was a direct quotation from Biden, from his debate with Trump. Facebook said that the clip was "missing context." But what context? Biden didn't say anything else about Antifa that I excluded. The clip was in no way deceptively edited. Even so, Facebook penalized me for posting it.



Right now I'm facing reduced Facebook distribution for a handful of posts that the platform has decided constitute misinformation or, again, "missing context." In one of them, I am faulted for posting a clip from my daily podcast in which I say that Kamala Harris is descended from a slave ancestor, Hamilton Brown, who owned five plantations and was one of the largest slaveowners in Jamaica.



I'm the one who broke this story. I got it from Kamala Harris's own father, Donald Harris, who claimed the slave ancestor in an article he wrote posted on Jamaica Global Online, a Jamaican website. I was also able to locate a genealogical tree that shows the Harris lineage.



When I first posted about this, my account was challenged by Nikole Hannah-Jones, writer of the 1619 Project, and historian Kevin Levin. Neither disputed Harris's lineage, but they blasted me for ignoring the common practice of rape on the plantation. This, they implied, is how Kamala Harris got her white slaveowning ancestor.



But these two critics were too lazy to check the genealogy I provided, showing that the grandson of the slaveowner, also named Hamilton Brown, had married a free woman of color named Jessian Prince, and this is the couple that gave birth to Christiana Brown, Donald Harris' grandmother and Kamala Harris' great grandmother. Rape on the plantation had nothing to do with it.



Chagrined, Hannah Jones deleted her tweet and Levin apologized for his mistaken attack on me. In effect, both of them acknowledged that my original post was right. Kamala Harris is in fact descended in a straight line from one of the largest planters in Jamaica, the man who gave his name to a whole town in Jamaica.



So how could Facebook claim I was mistaken? Facebook apparently takes its cue from so-called fact-checking sites. I decided to consult two prominent ones to see what they say. Politifact seems to confirm my account completely but then mysteriously concludes, "In the end we don't have enough documentation." Evidently a genealogical chart and Kamala Harris's own father's testimony does not seem to be enough.



If this seems strange, even stranger is what Snopes says on the subject, reviewing the exact same evidence but then declaring the claim "unproven." Then it adds this, "Even if it is the case that the Harris family, by way of Christiana Brown, are descendants of Hamilton Brown, those who seek to attack or undermine Harris for the wrongdoing of a man who died almost 200 years ago should first gain a better understanding of the complicated, traumatic histories of black families in the United States."



This is, of course, tendentious editorializing. Snopes seems to be covering for Harris here. So my conclusion is that these fact-checking sites are themselves untrustworthy. Had the same lineage applied to Trump, for instance, they would have been more than satisfied to confirm and broadcast his slaveholder lineage.



I'm not sure whether Facebook, in relying on partisan and tendentious fact-checking sites, is itself being duped by them, or whether Facebook has chosen to work with these sites so that they can provide ideological cover for Facebook removing or flagging content that is factual but that nevertheless disrupts Facebook's ideologically-preferred narrative.



Facebook and other social media platforms always strike the pose that they are combating "disinformation." But this claim itself strikes me as disinformation. If I post on Facebook that 2+2=5, will I get flagged? Probably not. How about if I post that Napoleon won the Battle of Waterloo? That's false, but will I get demonetized for it? Almost certainly not.



What this means is that Facebook isn't hunting down errors or misrepresentations per se. They are hunting down conservative claims that are damaging to the left's ideological narrative. In the case of Kamala Harris, the narrative is she is a historical victim. As a black woman, she's a "twofer," having endured a lineage of both racism and sexism. The slaveowner Hamilton Brown ruins that tale of victimhood.



I'm not saying Facebook doesn't have the right to regulate its own platform. I'm saying that they are doing it in an unfair and deceptive manner. They are taking facts and treating them as disinformation. They are relying on disinformation to invalidate truthful statements. In an Orwellian inversion, lies become truth and truth becomes lies.



How tragic it is that platforms that once symbolized freedom and open inquiry have now become frightening cauldrons of restriction, repression, and censorship. The very people who said they would save us from Orwell's Big Brother have become Big Brother.

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